You are what you say The essay‚ " you are what you say " is written by Robin Lakoff‚ a Professor of Linguistics at University of California. She has explicated her view on how English language has functioned to revile and debase women‚ why women are thought to be juvenile‚ dependent and frivolous species. Certain views which makes fair sex less thriving than men. The subject is of great interest as it illustrates that women only say what they mean‚ but what they say is inferred by men in a pejorative
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funny in a speech when you’re not a comedian Comedians aren’t funny in real life. Like any other profession‚ funny is what they do‚ not what they are. In real life‚ comedians work and struggle just like the rest of us to be good at their jobs. Joan Rivers‚ Richard Pryor‚ Billy Connolly Chris Rock – all the greatest comics wrote‚ rewrote and rehearsed their routines with great care and diligence‚ using classic techniques for content and delivery to get the laughs. If you have a speech or
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Poetry test Thursday October 3 You fit into me By: Margaret Atwood You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fishhook an open eye What initially appears to be a silly love poem quickly becomes dark and harrowing. Atwood overturns the expected definition of “hook and eye” and replaces it with an image of brutality and violence. The power of this setup/letdown formula often hinges‚ as in this poem‚ on the multiple meanings of words. “You fit into me” captures Atwood’s interest in the mechanisms
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American University of Sharjah Department of Writing Studies WRI 101: Academic Writing Spring 2014 Instructor: C. Horger Meeting Times: Mon/Wed 8:00‚ 9:30‚ 11:00‚ 12:30 E-mail: chorger@aus.edu Meeting Location: Lang 102 and 109 Telephone: 515-2717 Office: Lang. 220 Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 S/T Course Description Academic Writing challenges students to recognize‚ understand‚ and
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When joining any organization or corporation‚ we want to do our research so that we can make a quality decision on whether it is a good fit for us. An empowered person will understand that the application and interview process is reciprocal. Just like a company looks for qualified candidates to fill positions‚ we look for qualified employers that are worthy of our time‚ talent‚ skills‚ and energy. We should be careful not to undertake any profession only for money and self gain. We need to ask specific
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Ever Changing Times In April of 2008 six teenage girls attacked one of their peers while a teenage boy stood on hand to tape the “event.” The word event comes to mind because these teens planned and extricated the whole “event” to put on the website‚ YouTube‚ perhaps in some hopesthat the world would see it and notice them. What kind of world has society made that today’s youth are planning things like this just to get noticed; that this is the way they perceive respect is earned‚ my how times have
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Why should you do a tennis elbow test? Lateral epicondylitis‚ commonly known as Tennis Elbow‚ is a type of Tendonitis; caused as a result of damage to the tendons that connect the forearm to your elbow‚ which results in chronic pain near the elbow region. Tennis Elbow is known to affect people who extend and exert their forearms regularly and gets its name from the fact that it usually affects tennis players due to the constant swinging of the racket. Although you too are susceptible to it‚ if you
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Written communication: For my written communication evaluation I will be looking at my work from this unit. P2‚ in this one I looked at what makes effective communication. Strengths: this this part of the work there was a lot of written information that I had to get down. So it was appropriate for me to separate it with heading and subheadings so the assessor was able to understand it and make sure that they knew what they were meant to be reading. This also makes it look more professional and it
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Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting Outcome 1: 1. Communication is the giving and receiving of information. It is the foundation of what we do in everyday life. What we say‚ how we say it and what we do communicates a multitude of messages that are given and received consciously and subconsciously by using different communication methods. People Communicate for a variety of different reasons with others to both share and receive information. Working
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persona’s life has changed and will never return to its normal state. First of all‚ the father’s reaction in the second stanza: ‘In the porch I met my father crying – He had always taken funerals in his stride’ indicating that the father wouldn’t usually be crying at a funeral. This is a different matter‚ a new experience‚ which has come as a shock. Then the baby ‘cooed and laughed and rocked the pram’‚ at a wake no one laughs‚ this is incongruous. The idea being that his family are acting in such
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